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CHAPTER 4: Operation
4.3.8 XV
IEW
S
TATION AT
A
NOTHER
S
TATION
The XView Station at Another Station command is used to allow one or more
students to observe a fellow student’s screen. Issue the command by:
• pressing and releasing the left [Ctrl] key,
• pressing the [F9] key,
• designating the
viewing
station address (the address of the station[s] that will
be watching),
• pressing [Enter],
• designating the
viewed
address (the address of the station whose CPU activity
will be watched), and
• pressing [Enter] again.
Refer to the Note at the start of
Section 4.3
.
Issuing the XView Station at Another Station command with a viewing station
address of All ([F12]) will broadcast the viewed station’s screen to all students and
to you. Alternatively, you can issue several XView commands in succession to
designate only a subset of students to view the other student’s screen. For example,
[Ctrl][F9][F2][Enter][F3][Enter] followed by [Ctrl][F9][F4][Enter][F3][Enter]
shows station 3’s video to both station 2 and station 4. (However, the ServSwitch
Professor’s bus will only handle video data from a single source at any given time,
so although multiple students can view a single student’s video at the same time,
student A can’t view student B’s video while student C looks at student D’s video or
while you, the instructor, share control of student E’s CPU.)
While student stations are in XView mode, their Student Modules will discard all
of their keyboard and mouse data.
Issuing the XView Station at Another Station command with a
viewing
station
address of Me ([F11]) will cause the Professor system to behave just as if you had
entered the View Station command (see
Section 4.3.1
). Issuing the XView
command with a
viewed
station address of Me ([F11]) will cause the Professor
system to behave just as if you had entered the Show to Station command (see
Section 4.3.4
). The Professor will ignore any XView command with a
viewed
station
address of All [F12].
To dissolve all XView relationships and return the Professor system to normal
operation (each student viewing and controlling his or her own CPU), send the
Enable All Stations ([Ctrl][F5][F12][Enter]) command (see
Section 4.3.5
).
